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Caterina Giannini

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Post doc @slcuplants.bsky.social |PhD @istareasearch| Alumna @SantAnnaPisa Powered by plants 🌱 and dancing 💃🏻

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The SynBio team’s plasmid collection is one of the coolest aspects of @thesainsburylab.bsky.social What’s even cooler is their vision of sharing it with everyone and the partners who are helping make it happen 💪 🧬
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Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) @istaresearch.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Auxin and the control of plant growth and development”, a concise @currentbiology.bsky.social​ primer by ISTA researchers Valentin Leitner and Eva Benková is out now: www.cell.com/current-biology/fullte… #Auxin #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #PlantHormones #Botany
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Caterina Giannini @cate-giannini.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A day to remember! ✨
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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
#PlantSciJobs 🌱 Postdoctoral Research Associate (x2) and Research Assistant (x2) Dr Edwige Moyroud is seeking 2 Postdocs and 2 Research Assistants to join her team investigating petal patterning Applications close: 5 June: Research Assistant bit.ly/4a32ffK 17 June: Postdoc bit.ly/4dT2LOC
Microscopy images of a petal showing petal patterning developing in the young petals. Around the image is 6-stages of hibiscus development from closed bud to open flower. The flower is plit in two to show one flower with a dark purple bullseye and one flower fully white with no pigment petal patterns.
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Justin Walley @justinwwalley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Our latest review on Single Cell Proteomics is out. Honored that it is a Feature Review in the @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social special series: TIBS at 50 - Foundations and Frontiers. #Proteomics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Mass spectrometry-based single-cell proteomics technologies, trends, and biological insights
Single-cell proteomics (SCP) has emerged as a transformative approach for characterizing cellular heterogeneity at the protein level. Recent advances …
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Now online at @natplants.nature.com ‼️ Led by Jierui Zhao, a former PhD student @gmivienna.bsky.social & together w/ @moritznowack.bsky.social lab, we uncover how #autophagy shapes salt stress tolerance and lifespan. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short 🧵👇
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Cell-type-specific autophagy in root-hair-forming cells is essential for salt stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana - Nature Plants
This study reveals that enhanced autophagy in root-hair-forming cells helps Arabidopsis store excess sodium, control oxidative stress and tolerate salt stress.
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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Out now in @natplants.nature.com: A cell type-specific antagonism of autophagy and age-induced programmed cell death controls root hair life span www.nature.com/articles/s41..., back to back with another story on root hair-specific autophagy by @plantophagy.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nature @nature.com · 30/04/2026
Craig Venter redrew the boundaries of biology — sequencing DNA at unprecedented speed, engineering synthetic life and charting ocean microbes. go.nature.com/48wRba4
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Genome pioneer Craig Venter dies: here’s how he transformed science
Venter redrew the boundaries of biology — sequencing DNA at unprecedented speed, engineering synthetic life and charting ocean microbes.
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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 24/04/2026
The April issue is now fully online: www.nature.com/nplants/volu...
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered www.theguardian.com/environment/... Check out the four-week residential program being offered - application deadline 7 April. www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/learning/cer...
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Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered
University’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years ago
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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Why I’m genetically engineering a rainbow flower… And how a Russian fairy tale inspired the idea 🧵
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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
🌱 2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships at @slcuplants.bsky.social Unique opportunity for early-career researchers to launch their own independent research programme in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...
Interior of Sainsbury Laboratory building showing experimental laboratories on left with floor-to-ceiling glass facing into the main central avenue with people walking on stairs and sitting at study boxes. Lots of natural light and views to the Cambrdge University Botanic Garden. Overlay text "Join SLCU" and logos and closing date of 15 January 2026.
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Maizel lab @maizel-lab.org · 01/12/2025
New preprint! SOSEKI polarity proteins are mechanoresponsive integrators linking growth and tissue mechanics during lateral root formation. Their polarity marks growth boundaries and reorganises in response to mechanical alterations —reshaping how we think about axis formation. tinyurl.com/28p7af2w
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Glad to have this finally published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... lots of new data since the #preprint. If you are into selective #autophagy, #evolution, #proteostasis Please have a look!
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Nature @nature.com · 26/11/2025
Five years ago, researchers at Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaFold2 go.nature.com/3LUDauu
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AlphaFold is five years old — these charts show how it revolutionized science
Since it was unveiled in 2020, Google DeepMind's game-changing AI tool has helped researchers all over the world to predict the 3D structures of hundreds of millions of proteins.
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Ghent Rooting-lab/Steffen Vanneste @stvanneste.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
#auxin
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Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) @istaresearch.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Check out this recent preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Nuclear auxin signalling induces autophagy for developmental reprogramming
The phytohormone auxin is a central regulator of plant growth and development, traditionally known for mediating transcriptional reprogramming through the canonical TIR1/AFB-Aux/IAA signalling pathway...
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frimllab.bsky.social @frimllab.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
🚨 New preprint by @cate-giannini.bsky.social🚨 We uncover an unexpected link between auxin signalling, transcription, and autophagy — revealing how plants coordinate gene expression and cytoplasmic renewal to drive developmental reprogramming. 🌱✨ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Caterina Giannini @cate-giannini.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Curious about my main PhD work?!🔬🌱 Please have a look on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.04.686542v1 Connecting auxin-autophagy-development
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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
It is with great sadness that we heard of John Gurdon’s passing this week. Not just one of our 100 extraordinary biologists, but truly one of a kind, he was a pioneer, whose vision and personality inspired biologists worldwide.
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frimllab.bsky.social @frimllab.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
It is out! A tandem of two papers showing TMK regulation of PIN-dependent auxin transport www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... (PIN2, Friml lab) and www.cell.com/developmenta... (PIN1, Xu lab)
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ABP1/ABL3-TMK1 cell-surface auxin signaling targets PIN2-mediated auxin fluxes for root gravitropism
In gravistimulated roots, gravity perception in the columella redirects the flow of the plant hormone auxin toward the lower root side, where it inhibits cell elongation for downward root bending. Thi...
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Caterina Giannini @cate-giannini.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Such a nice and inspiring experience! 🌱 Thanks @NewPhyt for the opportunity! P.s. spot me in the photo, if you can 😉
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“As researchers we are explorers, and part of our mission involves finding our way without always knowing where we are going” www.science.org/content/arti...
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How I finally found my confidence as a scientist
After three postdoc positions, this researcher now sees her skills and knowledge as valuable
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Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) @istaresearch.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Founded in 2009 with a bold vision to become a top international research institution, ISTA already ranked 3rd in 2019’s Nature Index Normalized. Today, its campus is “home” to 1,100+ people from 78 countries. By 2036, it will double in size to appr. 150 research groups + more than 2,000 employees.
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Jenny Russinova @jennyrussinova.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I will be recruiting one PhD student and one postdoc in 2025. If interested please contact me already. @psb-vib.bsky.social 🌱🌱🌱We are interested in steroid hormones. See our published work PMID: 40068682  PMID: 38513023 PMID: 37639582 PMID: 37365405
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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 20/03/2025
These historical threads by @somssich.bsky.social‬ about various fundamental aspects of plant biology, and the long process of discovery, linking papers from a century ago to very recent publications, are such a joy to read, every single time.
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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Back-to-back on bioRxiv by @plantophagy.bsky.social and @moritznowack.bsky.social Cell-type specific upregulation of autophagy in Arabidopsis root hair cells promotes 1) root hair lifespan by suppressing cell death 2) plant salt stress resilience by ion sequestration See links to 2 papers below!
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The next frontier in #autophagy is understanding how it functions across cell types to maintain organismal homeostasis. w/ @moritznowack.bsky.social lab, we present TWO #preprint on cell type spec. autophagy in root hairs‼️ #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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a penguin wearing a bear hat and a blue sweater is jumping in the air
ALT: a penguin wearing a bear hat and a blue sweater is jumping in the air
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KleineVehnLab @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
We are excited to update you on two distinct auxin oscillations (local & systemic), revealing how root architecture adapts to fluctuating conditions! @cibss.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Two distinct oscillatory auxin signals define the plasticity of lateral rooting in Arabidopsis thaliana
The phytohormone auxin defines lateral root pre-branch sites (PBS) in the growing primary root tip. How PBS contribute to the plasticity of the root system architecture remains incompletely understood...
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